T-Mobile keeps pushing FCC to set aside more 'reserved' spectrum in 600 MHz auction

T-Mobile is continuing to press its case to the Federal Communications Commission that the commission should reserve more spectrum for smaller carriers in the 2016 incentive auction of 600 MHz broadcast TV spectrum. T-Mobile fears that the way the auction is currently designed will allow Verizon Wireless and AT&T to walk away with the bulk of the spectrum licenses up for bid, leaving minimal amounts of spectrum in the "reserved" pool for smaller carriers like T-Mobile, Sprint, and others. In its most recent presentation to the FCC, T-Mobile proposed increasing the size of the spectrum reserve from three blocks to four (assuming at least seven 10 MHz block are cleared).